Listen to Patty Wipfler’s Interview!

Patty Wipfler is the author of the brand new book Listen: Five Simple Tools to Meet Your Everyday Parenting Challenges, released on August 23, 2016, and the book Listening to Children with over 800,000c copies sold. She was born, raised and educated in California, graduating from Occidental College in 1968, and is the mother of two adult sons. The focus of her work since 1974 has been teaching basic listening, parenting, and leadership skills to parents. She directed The School, a non-profit parent co-operative preschool in Palo Alto, and later directed the Neighborhood Infant Toddler Center for Palo Alto Community Child Care. She has led over 400 residential weekend workshops for families and for leaders of parents in the U.S. and in 23 countries.In 1989, she founded the non-profit Parents Leadership Institute, which evolved into Hand in Hand Parenting. As Director, she has written 14 booklets, produced videotapes and audiotapes, and has written over 100 articles for Hand in Hand on the principles and benefits of Parenting by Connection. Hand in Hand Parenting serves families all over the world.Patty Wipfler’s articles have been published in Mothering Magazine, the Bulletin of Zero to Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers and Families, Child Welfare News, and in many local newsletters for parents. She has been a keynote speaker at the Association for the Education of Young Children conventions in Chicago and Philadelphia, and has done workshops and trainings throughout California, and in Oregon, New Mexico, Texas, and Massachusetts, as well as in Beijing, China.Patty lives with her husband in Palo Alto, California.

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